2020 PES GM 8/4 Panel Video: Leveraging Demand Side Flexibility to Support System Operations

The electric power industry is faced with the challenge of integrating distributed resources amidst growing need for flexibility to balance high penetrations of intermittent resources. The proposed panel emphasizes operations-informed integration challenges and solution alternatives that better enable reliance on distributed resource for system balancing needs, including flexible loads.
ISOs/utilities share different types of challenges to achieve end-to-end integration of distributed resources. Topics include emerging technologies and applications, low-cost telemetry approaches to meet existing requirements, and modeling considerations to accommodate flexible resource participation (e.g., flexible load provision of ramp down services). These topics have fundamental impacts on power system operation, at both bulk power and distribution system levels.
Ensuring sufficient operational flexibility is a necessary part of operations in systems with high penetrations of variable and distributed generation. This panel session focuses on emerging solutions, policies, and operational models leveraging demand-side assets and energy systems integration as flexible resources in support of bulk power operations.